'The Scottish coal owners' andi miners' representatives have arrived at an agreement which will be submitted to both sides. It is understood that this agreement provides for an eight-hour day at a nominal minimum wage of 98. 4d, 'The Northumberland Miners Council has decided to recommdhd acceptance of the owners' terms, fineluding a seven and a half hour shift for hewers and eight hours for other workers.
Nationalist Plot to Kill Foreign Troops Now Disclosed Berlin, Nov. 2
A lengthy conference between the Cannock Chase owners and miners Birmingham failed to reach an agreement but a great majority of the men are working—Reuter.
Following an admission by Herr Gessler, the Minister of Defence, in the Reichstag that at the time of *°*Northumberland had been des-
Jeribed as one of the most obdurate fields. the Ruhr invasion German National.
organizations contemplated the forcible ejection of the invaders, it now appears that oticers of the old. German army anil extremists at one time planned to have. "Sicilian vespers" in Germany in which all the foreign troops were to be murdered, They also proposed to form an army of 60,000 disciplined work men in the Ruhr, white Russ was also to be enlisted in a for freedom, were prepared to abandon Germany to the enemy as far ax the river Elbe, where the final stand was to be made—Reuter.
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